Accession Number:

ADA505570

Title:

Resonantly Diode Laser Pumped 1.6-micrometers-Erbium-Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Solid-State Laser

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC CRANBURY NJ

Personal Author(s):

• Garbuzov, Dmitri
• Kudryashov, Igor
• Dubinskii, Mark

Report Date:

2005-03-25

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

We report direct resonant diode pumping of a 1.6-micrometer-Er3-doped bulk solid-state laser. Using a 1470-nm-single-mode diode laser module to pump the ErYAG rod, an absorbed photon conversion efficiency of 26 has been obtained in this initial experiment. Analysis of the diode-pumped solid-state laser input-output characteristics suggests that the obtained slope efficiency can be doubled through the reduction of intracavity losses and pumping efficiency improvement.

Descriptors:

• *SOLID STATE LASERS
• *YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET
• *DIODE LASERS
• NEODYMIUM LASERS
• PHOTONS
• YAG LASERS
• REPRINTS

Subject Categories:

• Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy
• Lasers and Masers

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE